The Virus Hunter
At the forefront of the detection and control of the viral outbreaks within and outside the USA in the last more than 20 years...
CoviDepression
After losing nearly 300 and prevailing infection to more than 12,000 people, it is still too early to assess the real psychological costs of...
Corona Carnage?
In comparison to the first 100 days, Kashmir doubled up the Covid-19 body-bags in succeeding 25 days. Now more die young without co-morbidities. As...
The Domicile Debate
New residency rules have plunged Jammu and Kashmir into deep uncertainty. People on both sides of Pir Panchal fear the loss of "inheritance" marks...
Foreboding Footprints
With the Chinese army incursions finally admitted at all levels, the newer revelations suggest that PLA border operations in Ladakh were an open secret....
Childbirths In Pandemic
At a time when Kashmir’s Coronavirus caseload is soaring past 5000, the exponential rise in the number of infected pregnant women has raised fears...
China And The UT
After Delhi undid the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and reorganised the state into two federally governed Union Territories in 2019, Beijing had...
Locked Down, Jobless
As the counter pandemic lockdown prolongs, thousands of people in unorganised and transporter, retail and services sectors are literally jobless. Left to fend for...
No Cherry Blossom
With part of the apple already lost, it is now cherry and strawberry paying the pandemic costs. The two most delicate fruits with lowest...
Cursed Apple
With partial lockdown still in place, and around 20 thousand metric tonnes of apple still in CA stores across Kashmir, farmers and traders are...
A Hundred Years Later
The Spanish Flu that brought the world on its knees by killing almost five crore people exactly a century earlier has visited Kashmir also. Though...
Worried Warriors
Doctors, paramedics and biotechnology scholars, currently on the frontline in the battle against Covad-19are delivering efficiently. They, however, regret that the system, their management...
Covid Champions
Defying lock-down, curfew and the internet at snail-pace, scores of young men in Kashmir have offered amazing solutions to the various challenges triggered by...
A Silent Ramzan
As the Covid-19 pandemic has dictated its new rules, there would not be any congregational prayers, grand Iftaar’s and the lockdown will have an...
Being Covid-19 Positive
Avoided by family and isolated at hospitals, the patients go through a gruelling ordeal on their path to recovery, reveals Saima Bhat
On March 16,...